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In January 2018, Newman interviewed the Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology [[Jordan Peterson]], who is known for his criticism of [[political correctness]].<ref name="Harley"/> The combative interview covered topics such as gender equality, including the [[gender pay gap]], freedom of speech, and transgender rights.<ref name="Khan">{{cite news |last1=Khan |first1=Shehab |last2=Sharman |first2=Jon |last3=Pasha-Robinson |first3=Lucy |title=Cathy Newman: Channel 4 calls in security experts following 'vicious abuse' over Jordan Peterson interview |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jordan-peterson-cathy-newman-interview-channel-4-news-security-consultant-university-of-toronto-a8169401.html |work=The Independent |date=20 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Likhodi">{{cite news |last=Likhodi |first=Lidia |url=https://thevarsity.ca/2018/01/29/british-journalist-subject-to-online-threats-following-interview-with-jordan-peterson/ |title=British journalist subject to online threats following interview with Jordan Peterson |date=29 January 2018 |work=[[The Varsity (newspaper)|The Varsity]] |accessdate=2 February 2018}}</ref>
In January 2018, Newman interviewed the Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology [[Jordan Peterson]], who is known for his criticism of [[political correctness]].<ref name="Harley"/> The combative interview covered topics such as gender equality, including the [[gender pay gap]], freedom of speech, and transgender rights.<ref name="Khan">{{cite news |last1=Khan |first1=Shehab |last2=Sharman |first2=Jon |last3=Pasha-Robinson |first3=Lucy |title=Cathy Newman: Channel 4 calls in security experts following 'vicious abuse' over Jordan Peterson interview |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jordan-peterson-cathy-newman-interview-channel-4-news-security-consultant-university-of-toronto-a8169401.html |work=The Independent |date=20 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Likhodi">{{cite news |last=Likhodi |first=Lidia |url=https://thevarsity.ca/2018/01/29/british-journalist-subject-to-online-threats-following-interview-with-jordan-peterson/ |title=British journalist subject to online threats following interview with Jordan Peterson |date=29 January 2018 |work=[[The Varsity (newspaper)|The Varsity]] |accessdate=2 February 2018}}</ref>


The interview became a [[viral phenomenon]] on YouTube, and many commenters online were critical of Newman.<ref name="Doward">{{cite news |last=Doward |first=Jamie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/21/no-excuse-for-online-abuse-says-professor-in-tv-misogyny-row |title=‘Back off’, controversial professor urges critics of C4 interviewer|date=21 January 2018 |work=[[The Observer]] |accessdate=21 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Star">{{cite news |title=Security for British TV personality bolstered after interview with Jordan Peterson |date=2 January 2018 |work=[[Toronto Star]] |agency=Canadian Press |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/01/20/security-for-british-tv-personality-bolstered-after-interview-with-jordan-peterson.html |accessdate=19 March 2018}}</ref> ''Channel 4 News'' editor [[Ben de Pear]] said that the station had called in security specialists in response to social-media abuse and threats directed against her.<ref name="Harley">{{cite news|last1=Harley|first1=Nicola|title=Channel 4 News calls in security experts after trolls make 'vicious' threats to presenter Cathy Newman|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/channel-4-news-calls-security-experts-trolls-make-vicious-threats/|work=The Telegraph|date=2018}}</ref><ref name="Likhodi"/><ref name="Ruddick">{{cite news |last=Ruddick|first=Graham |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/19/channel-4-calls-in-security-experts-after-cathy-newman-suffers-online-abuse |title=Channel 4 calls in security experts after Cathy Newman suffers online abuse |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=19 January 2018 |accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> She later told ''The Guardian'' that the abuse had included death threats.{{refn|name=Iqbal}} Peterson asked his [[Twitter]] followers not to threaten her and to be "civilised" in their criticism.<ref name="Khan"/><ref name="Star"/><ref name="Gillespie">{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=James |date=21 January 2018 |title=Channel 4’s Cathy Newman trolled over gender pay gap |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/channel-4s-cathy-newman-trolled-over-gender-pay-gap-wgsc6bl0l |accessdate=1 February 2018 |location=London |work=The Times}}</ref>
The interview became a [[viral phenomenon]] on YouTube, and many commentators online were critical of Newman for her repeated misrepresentations of Dr. Peterson's responses to questions.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/</ref><ref name="Doward">{{cite news |last=Doward |first=Jamie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/21/no-excuse-for-online-abuse-says-professor-in-tv-misogyny-row |title=‘Back off’, controversial professor urges critics of C4 interviewer|date=21 January 2018 |work=[[The Observer]] |accessdate=21 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Star">{{cite news |title=Security for British TV personality bolstered after interview with Jordan Peterson |date=2 January 2018 |work=[[Toronto Star]] |agency=Canadian Press |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/01/20/security-for-british-tv-personality-bolstered-after-interview-with-jordan-peterson.html |accessdate=19 March 2018}}</ref> ''Channel 4 News'' editor [[Ben de Pear]] said that the station had called in security specialists in response to social-media abuse and threats directed against her.<ref name="Harley">{{cite news|last1=Harley|first1=Nicola|title=Channel 4 News calls in security experts after trolls make 'vicious' threats to presenter Cathy Newman|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/channel-4-news-calls-security-experts-trolls-make-vicious-threats/|work=The Telegraph|date=2018}}</ref><ref name="Likhodi"/><ref name="Ruddick">{{cite news |last=Ruddick|first=Graham |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/19/channel-4-calls-in-security-experts-after-cathy-newman-suffers-online-abuse |title=Channel 4 calls in security experts after Cathy Newman suffers online abuse |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=19 January 2018 |accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> She later told ''The Guardian'' that the abuse had included death threats.{{refn|name=Iqbal}} Peterson asked his [[Twitter]] followers not to threaten her and to be "civilised" in their criticism.<ref name="Khan"/><ref name="Star"/><ref name="Gillespie">{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=James |date=21 January 2018 |title=Channel 4’s Cathy Newman trolled over gender pay gap |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/channel-4s-cathy-newman-trolled-over-gender-pay-gap-wgsc6bl0l |accessdate=1 February 2018 |location=London |work=The Times}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 00:36, 6 May 2018

Cathy Newman
Cathy Newman in 2012
Born
Catherine Elizabeth Newman

(1974-07-14) 14 July 1974 (age 50)
Guildford, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, News presenter
Years active1997-present
Known forChannel 4 News
Spouse
John O'Connell
​
(m. 2001)​
Children2

Catherine Elizabeth Newman (born 14 July 1974)[1][2] is an English journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News.

Newman began her career as a newspaper journalist, and had spells at Media Week, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Washington Post. She has worked on Channel 4 News since 2006, initially as a correspondent and, since 2011, as a presenter.

Early life

Born in Guildford, Surrey, Newman is the younger daughter of Julia (née Worsdall) and David Newman, both chemistry teachers; she has a sister.[1][3][4] She was educated at Charterhouse, an independent school.[5] She was on the path to a career as a violinist or in the legal profession before changing her plans as a result of seeing BBC journalist Kate Adie on television.[6] Newman graduated with a first[2] from Oxford University, where she read English at Lady Margaret Hall.[7]

Career

Early career

After university, Newman briefly worked on The Guardian' Books section, then at Media Week (as a trainee) and The Independent (as media business correspondent) before joining the Financial Times at the age of 23.[3][8] Her older colleague Alice Rawsthorn acted as a mentor at the FT,[9] where Newman worked as a media and then (for three years) political correspondent. While Newman was working at the FT, David Yelland, the editor of The Sun, offered her a slot called "Better than Lex" (named after Lex, a column in the Financial Times).[6] She seriously considered the offer, but later declined; the experience led to further opportunities in political journalism.[6] Newman began a television career in 2000. She gained a Laurence Stern fellowship to work at The Washington Post for four months.[8] During her period in the US, she followed the 2000 Presidential campaign of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.[6][10]

Channel 4 News

She joined Channel 4 News as a political correspondent and deputy to political editor Gary Gibbon in January 2006.[11] In this role she broke several stories, including claims the Treasury pushed through the nomination of then Chancellor Gordon Brown's close friend Ronald Cohen for the House of Lords,[12] challenging Peter Mandelson at the Brighton Labour Party conference in 2009, over his claimed use of the C-word in a conversation with Rebekah Brooks, then Wade, the CEO of News International.[13]

Newman became the first female co-presenter of the programme in 2011.[14][15] Alongside this, she has also headed the team behind the FactCheck blog.

From 2013 to 2015, Newman's pursuit of a story about the allegations of improper conduct levelled at Lord Rennard, once a leading figure in the Liberal Democrats, included her participation in an LBC local London radio phone-in on 27 February 2013 to quiz deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the issue.[16][17] Newman has commented that sexism was endemic at Westminster during her period as a lobby correspondent there, but has also said that the newspaper industry is even worse.[18] She told Natasha Lunn in an interview for Red magazine in 2016: "As a woman in the media I feel a duty to make sure we report those issues. I’ve always wanted to right injustices; I suppose what’s changed is I’ve now got a keener sense of how journalists can hold power to account".[19] The victim of online sexism for her work, Newman gave her support for "public shaming" of trolls in 2013: "the best way to tackle these people is to publicly humiliate them".[20]

A regular commentator on politics in other media outlets, Newman has appeared as a guest panellist on Have I Got News For You[21] and blogs for The Daily Telegraph[22] and Economia magazine.[23]

Newman was long-listed for the Orwell Prize (Journalism) in 2010[24] and again in 2011 for the blog prize.[25] She was announced as one of the judges for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2015.[26] Her book, Bloody Brilliant Women, concerning significant, but unheralded, 20th century women, is due for publication in Autumn 2018.[27]

Jordan Peterson interview

In January 2018, Newman interviewed the Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology Jordan Peterson, who is known for his criticism of political correctness.[28] The combative interview covered topics such as gender equality, including the gender pay gap, freedom of speech, and transgender rights.[29][30]

The interview became a viral phenomenon on YouTube, and many commentators online were critical of Newman for her repeated misrepresentations of Dr. Peterson's responses to questions.[31][32][33] Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear said that the station had called in security specialists in response to social-media abuse and threats directed against her.[28][30][34] She later told The Guardian that the abuse had included death threats.[3] Peterson asked his Twitter followers not to threaten her and to be "civilised" in their criticism.[29][33][35]

Personal life

Newman married writer John O'Connell, whom she met at university, in 2001. The couple have two daughters and live in London.[36] Newman has written about having a miscarriage, and about deciding to abort another child, after discovering 13 weeks into her pregnancy that the baby had a very rare condition which meant there was a high chance that it would die.[37]

References

  1. ^ a b "Newman, Cathy". WHO'S WHO and WHO WAS WHO. A&C Black. 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-249479.
  2. ^ a b Lisa Campbell "Cathy Newman, C4 News", Broadcast, 20 October 2011. Newman's date of birth is given as "Bastille Day 1974".
  3. ^ a b c Iqbal, Nosheen (19 March 2018). "Cathy Newman: 'The internet is being written by men with an agenda'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Charterhouse - Senior Only Boys Boys Boys Boys Boys Boys Boys Independent School - Surrey (see also London - Outer) - Guide to Independent Schools". guidetoindependentschools.com.
  6. ^ a b c d Ian Burrell "Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman doesn't just read the news - she makes it", Independent on Sunday, 18 May 2014
  7. ^ "Prominent LMH alumni" Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University website
  8. ^ a b "Cathy Newman - News and Current Affairs". Knight Ayton Management. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  9. ^ Sophie Morris "My Mentor: Cathy Newman On Alice Rawsthorn", The Independent, 28 August 2006
  10. ^ "Nader Picks a Milder Shade of Green". Common Dreams (reproduced from Washington Post).
  11. ^ "Cathy Newman - Presenter", Channel 4 News website
  12. ^ "Brown honour nomination 'normal'". BBC News.
  13. ^ "Did Mandelson use the 'chump' word?". Channel 4 News. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  14. ^ Neil Midgley "Cathy Newman: The time I feel the need for plastic surgery is the time that I leave TV", Evening Standard, 6 December 2011
  15. ^ "Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News". Broadcast Now. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  16. ^ Elgot, Jessica (27 February 2013). "Lord Rennard Allegations: Channel 4 Cathy Newman Calls Clegg Phone-In". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  17. ^ Newman, Cathy (27 February 2013). "Lord Rennard row: Nick Clegg called to account by Cathy Newman". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  18. ^ O'Carroll, Lisa. "Cathy Newman claims to have been propositioned at political conference". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  19. ^ Lunn, Natasha (30 November 2016). "An Interview With News Presenter Cathy Newman". Red. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  20. ^ Mesure, Susie (19 July 2013). "Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman says public humiliation is the answer for sexist remarks". The Independent. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  21. ^ "Have I Got News For You Series 46 Episode 1 of 11". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  22. ^ "Cathy Newman", contributor page, telegraph.co.uk
  23. ^ "Cathy Newman", Economia contributor page
  24. ^ "Cathy Newman - Political correspondent", The Orwell Prize, Journalism Prize, 2010
  25. ^ "Cathy Newman - The FactCheck Blog - Channel 4 News", The Orwell Prize, Blog Prize, 2011
  26. ^ "Baileys women's prize for fiction shortlists debut alongside star names". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  27. ^ Saul, Hreather (8 March 2018). "17 bloody brilliant women (and two men) share their proudest moments for International Women's Day". i. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  28. ^ a b Harley, Nicola (2018). "Channel 4 News calls in security experts after trolls make 'vicious' threats to presenter Cathy Newman". The Telegraph.
  29. ^ a b Khan, Shehab; Sharman, Jon; Pasha-Robinson, Lucy (20 January 2018). "Cathy Newman: Channel 4 calls in security experts following 'vicious abuse' over Jordan Peterson interview". The Independent.
  30. ^ a b Likhodi, Lidia (29 January 2018). "British journalist subject to online threats following interview with Jordan Peterson". The Varsity. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  31. ^ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/
  32. ^ Doward, Jamie (21 January 2018). "'Back off', controversial professor urges critics of C4 interviewer". The Observer. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  33. ^ a b "Security for British TV personality bolstered after interview with Jordan Peterson". Toronto Star. Canadian Press. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  34. ^ Ruddick, Graham (19 January 2018). "Channel 4 calls in security experts after Cathy Newman suffers online abuse". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  35. ^ Gillespie, James (21 January 2018). "Channel 4's Cathy Newman trolled over gender pay gap". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  36. ^ Urwin, Urwin (21 July 2017). "Cathy Newman is on a mission to stamp out FGM". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  37. ^ Newman, Cathy (2 October 2012). "Cathy Newman: how the agony of my abortion made me see both sides". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
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